Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...continuously functioning oversight apparatus is in order--rather than the case-by-case investigation committees that were called into action after the fact by the Dana-Farber and by the National Institutes of Health. Clearly fraud does not call for an inquisitorial committee shackling the research process, but an investigation of the extent of misconduct in the scientific community...
...others. Now, however, this concern has been replaced by a new one: that the NSC staff has carved out a new and fundamentally different role for itself--the conduct of covert operations--and that it has done so in a way that exempts it from not only congressional oversight but that of the State Department, the Pentagon...
...reading the new immigration act with narrow-minded zeal, the INS has intentionally overstepped its duty to enforce the law. It is attempting to take advantage of Congress' oversight in order to create, implement and enforce its own immigration policy...
Although Schama discounts outside pressure, most students agree that the absence of South Asia courses is the result of a significant oversight in Harvard's curriculum. "I was really surprised at the lack of any real offerings in Indian studies, especially history and politcs," says Anupam Chander `89, an Economics concentrator who is minoring in government...
...service," boasts Thomas, who has also opted to follow that calling. Since graduating from the Kennedy School of Government in 1975, he has worked for the Dukakis administration and for civil rights activist Eleanor Holmes Norton. Most recently, he resigned from the New England Equal Opportunity Commission, a government oversight agency on civil rights. "I could not carry out my oath," Thomas says, because of the Reagan Administration policy that seeks curbs on affirmative action programs...